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A memory of a scar

Taken from our precious coalition

Entering the realm of birth

I am summoned with the stillness

A torturous welcoming bestows the precious enigma

Cupped in my mothers shaking hands

A frantic blur of flesh

Cradling an object only ghostwriters conjure

Her lips press against a figure so cold and blue

Sticky vernix coats her trembling mouth

Her eyes are sealed to erase this horror

The knife has spoken

Dissection and separation

Neonate flesh is prepared for the great partition

Intervention with nature's intentions

Entering the realm of birth

I am summoned with the stillness

A torturous welcoming

Bestows the precious enigma

Cupped in my mother's shaking hands

A frantic blur of flesh

Cradling an object only ghostwriters conjure

Years have passed and I cannot recall

Any of this agonizing episode

Yet this scar on my side

Is the origin of my maker's obsession

In secrecy

I study the forbidden diary

Her memoir

Unfurls a sewer of clandestine activity

I learn of the being torn from my side

I learn of the jar of preservation and nauseation

Deeply unsettling discovery

Of distorted malformation

Information i wish to remove from my mind

Now I know the beginnings

Of this scar the hideousness

Of what came to be.